Many companies now block YouTube with their firewalls. To circumvent this and to offer clients an alternative route to see the videos on our YouTube I am thinking of using Business Catalyst as a minisite for this purpose. However, I see no mention of video hosting on the functionalities list. Does anyone know if you can host videos on a BC site instead of just embedding them?

BC is not well suited for hosting videos - because of the sheer size of the files, even if you'll be able to upload them to BC, you might experience poor HTTP streaming performance and potential disconnects...

blocked by many firewalls? I do not think that is the case. We use vimeo for lots of clients because it has a good player and good IOS fallback etc. Not one of our clients has had anyone tell them the videos are blocked.

Your not hosting the video if your using Vimeo Matt, Vimeo do that. There is a few variations of how you can use the videos, depends on the implementation. Done a few of them into web apps in varius ways be it link or code snippts and web app tags. Not really had any issues.

We have looked at AWS and S3, but it's a way longer project than we hoped, that would be another infrastructure project and will not help us deliver the features and fixes you guys crave for.

So, while it's on the roadmap, it's probably 2-3 years ahead, we'll focus in the next year to improve BC on the current infrastructure, bringing in new features, deeper integration and building the new platform.

That is cool but in terms of an online business 100mb is the dark ages.

I have implemented S3 stuff on wordpress on my own in a couple of evenings but I guess this platform has complexities to make that something thats 3 years down the line. So, what can be done to increase the size limits throughout the system?

That are still really silly small limits throughout the whole system like 1024kb limits when it should be more etc as well.

After all the infustructure and hardware updates over the last 2-2.5 years we been waiting on to be done so we can finally get some updates to BC, was nothing done to actually allow more storage limits?